Sarcasm, Whit and Maybe Truth
What if someone curated a special group of artists to create a special dual event…one where a small audience of people (45 or less) gets to experience an amazing performance while being filmed as a show for an upcoming streaming series?
The place really is super cool, expansive and nestled in a very cool spot not all that far off of Rte. 78 in the New Jersey Highlands, where the vistas can be quite amazing, really (see I have been telling you N.J. is beautiful!)
So, I am damn proud to make Clifton Merchant Magazine with my buddy, Joe Swarctz, the illustrator of our Echo City Capers children’s books series, in a mention the magazine gave us (see the pic).
N.J.-native Wise, as his press attests, “connects his youth to his current evolution on explosive new release” sharing a “dedicated passion for both genres” (that’s techno and metal), “while mixing them together with care,” on his new EP The Fire Within.
At the Wind Creek Event Center, part of the Wind Creek casino/hotel complex in Bethlehem, PA (a mere stone’s throw from my home environs), Mr. W. gave forth a wonderful hour and a half of music and story last Thursday.
Spread the loveOk, I’ll admit it, there are some exciting places that ARE NOT in New Jersey. Granted, there aren’t…
Then he began to add doodads, inflatables, and lights for Christmas. Then it was those female mannequins dressed like Playboy bunnies for easter. This was when the trouble began.
Just yesterday, down at The Shops at Riverside in Hackensack, a relatively high-end grouping of shops that I have been to a time or two, police responded to a call of five ladies lying in the mall’s parking lot, overdosed on fentanyl.
Iconic Hollywood rebel, infamous murder suspect, one of Johnny Carson’s best and frequent guests, actor Robert Blake was born in Nutley, New Jersey.
At the beginning of 2023, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka invited the Hindu nation of Kailasa to Newark’s City Hall for a “cultural trade agreement.”